Rushern Baker III: Prince George's County Executive

On December 6, I had the wonderful opportunity to shadow Prince George's County Executive-Elect Rushern Baker III and document him during his inauguration day. As you loyal checkers-out (fabricated word combination) of my blog know, I did a series of these type of documentary projects called 8to8 with a few people in the Washington D.C. community. Well this time, I was actually hired to channel my inner Pete Souza.

Access is an amazing thing. Politicians often have two (or more!) personae, o

ne for when the red light is on and another for the everyday living of being a public figure. With the latter, there are moments when they can let their guard down but are still aware that blunder-capturing technology might be lurking. I was fortunate enough to be behind the scenes during family and isolated moments and tasked with the challenge or preserving this memorable night. The great thing about this very long assignment (7am - 1am) is that I became more invisible to the subject as the day wore on.

December 6, 2010 is mostly a blur now but there is one thing that I vividly remember. At one point I found myself in the "green room" with the new County Executiv

e and his security detail watching the Jets v. Patriots on Monday Night Football. Pretty Cool.

Shout out to the Canon 50mm 1.2 that kept me in the game. And shout out to Charles Matthews and Dave Patterson over at RH Media Group for the awesome assignment.

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McDonough @ Georgetown Prep Football

Georgetown Prep and McDonough played a Friday late afternoon game... fading light is better than no light. In the 4th quarter as the sun was going down and the game was wrapping up (26-7 with 6 minutes left), I decided to shut it down and head to the Bentzen Ball with my marathon running girlfriend. Randomly, I ran into the editor of DCSportsFan later that night and he informed me that Georgetown Prep had lost 27-26. Read about it here. So what have we learned today? Two things: 1) the game is never over until it's over 2) grown men do talk about high school football when they see each other in the streets on Friday night. I didn't see the end of the game, but shout out to the old cliche "never give up". Sometimes it works.

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Riverdale Baptist @ Landon Football

Headed out to Landon again for their late Friday afternoon game against Riverdale Baptist School. The game was pretty close at the beginning but Landon pulled away and got the win 31-7. The game was called mid-way through the 4th quarter due to a neck injury to a Riverdale Baptist player. An ambulance was called to get him off of the field. I hope the kid is ok.

Mercersburg @ Landon Football

Rare. A Friday football game played under natural light. Probably the most compelling reason that I was at that game in particular. Mercersburg Academy is a team from Pennsylvania that probably made a long trip to Bethesda that day and an even longer trip back. Landon pretty much had their way (hopefully evident in the pictures) in a 30-6 win in which Mercersburg scored in the final seconds of the game and was genuinely excited about it. Read about it here. Shout out to programs that are rebuilding.

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